Manwray
@manwray.bsky.social
Coding since ‘66, guitar, violin, banjo. Musical tastes range from free jazz to oldtime and lots of early 20th century violinists. Dedicated listener of WKCR (home of technical difficulties) and WFMU (freeform radio). Further left!
Put differently, if you made a dollar EVERY SECOND, you would be a millionaire in just under 12 days. It’d take you 31.7 years to become a billionaire. You’d have to have been born 31,709 years ago — in the Upper Paleolithic era — to become a trillionaire. IF YOU MADE A DOLLAR EVERY SECOND!!!!
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 2mo agoCounting to a million, if you count one number per second nonstop, would take you just under 12 days. Counting to a billion would take you about 31 years. Counting to a trillion would take you 31,709 years. You would have had to have started counting DURING THE UPPER PALAEOLITHIC ERA.
I wonder if folks fully grasp the degree to which the computer they have today, in their hands or at their workspace, is a link a long chain of devices which have destroyed entire industries, entire lifelong careers.
Yeah, it’s one of those things where I guess someone heard the warnings and thought “yep, fuck that, I’m gonna look deeper” and here we are. The post I saw:
Kurt Gödel, in a draft letter from 1961: "A completely unfree society (i.e., one proceeding in everything by strict rules of "conformity") will, in its behavior, be either inconsistent or incomplete, i.e., unable to solve certain problems, perhaps of vital importance. ...
Two young boys were locked up inside ICE's notorious detention center in Texas. Then Ms. Rachel shared their stories.
Ms. Rachel is helping kids get out of ICE detention—one video at a time
The wildly popular children's educator is taking on ICE's notorious family detention center.
motherjones.com
This is delicious. Lemon pound cake for everybody!
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 5mo agopromises made promises kept
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Another example of how mRNA vaccine technology is revolutionizing medicine in real time. Individualized mRNA vaccination triggered robust anti-tumor T cell responses in triple negative breast cancer leading to durable cancer remission. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Individualized mRNA vaccines evoke durable T cell immunity in adjuvant TNBC - Nature
In a phase 1 trial, personalized mRNA vaccines tailored to individual tumour mutations in triple-negative breast cancer induced robust, long-lasting T cell responses and improved prognosis.
nature.com
T-Minus 10 Days & Counting... Sat, Feb 28th, 7pm - 11pm @wfmu.bsky.social “We’re Trying To Save Your Ass!” Sun Ra / Nuclear War Mega Mix (1982-1988) 🪐🔥🚀 Details ▶️ wfmu.org/playlists/OV
Remembering Sly Dunbar, the drummer who helped steer reggae and worked globally with everyone from Serge Gainsbourg to Grace Jones. Words by @wrongtom.bsky.social thequietus.com/news/remembe...
Remembering Sly Dunbar by Wrongtom | The Quietus
Sly Dunbar has died aged 73; Wrongtom celebrates a life of reggae and pop innovation reaching from Jamaica across the globe.
thequietus.com
BREAKING: Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead and a jam band icon, dies at 78.
Bob Weir, Grateful Dead founding member and a jam band icon, dies at 78
Weir had been diagnosed with cancer in July and beat it, but "succumbed to underlying lung issues," a statement said.
nbcnews.to
This is the MO of much of the reactionary centrist crowd, supporting monstrous policies but pushing them with a veneer of civility.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 7mo agoMamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
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So many of us have been warning the public that RFK Jr. is going to take away access to as many vaccines as he can. The December ACIP meeting is dedicating an entire day to reviewing “the safety” of the childhood vaccine schedule. There’s not a shred of credible evidence that warrants this.
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have unveiled a promising new vaccine that generates a powerful immune response against HIV and other viruses including SARS-CoV-2 and influenza with just ONE dose. By combining immune-boosting adjuvants, the vaccine encourages the body to generate more antibody variations.
Most red states are just violently gerrymandered states. AND — as I’ve said before and will say again — if you genuinely care about liberation, you want liberation for EVERYONE. Freedom is not to be hoarded.
Every time I visit DC (which happens to be where I was born), I visit the Rothko Room at the Phillips Collection and just sit for a while. www.phillipscollection.org/curation/rot...
The Rothko Room
The intimate Rothko Room features four paintings by abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, and reflects the artist’s preference for exhibiting his art “in a scale of normal living.”
phillipscollection.org
Every news broadcast should run the facts split-screen in real time while Trump spews his lies. Nice work, @msnbc.com — every network had time to prepare because they knew what was coming.
One of the most memorable scenes in Les Miserables is where Jean Valjean briefly visualizes the full cosmic horror of French society crushing him with inhuman intent. He pictures in detail every priest and gendarme, every bureaucrat, all the million moving pieces of the machine crushing him.
I tend to describe what they do, what they're designed to do, is generate "answer-shaped objects".
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.